8. Recommendations for Routine Hepatitis A Vaccination of Children

Hepatitis A is different in that our
immunization strategy across the country was actually regionally
based. Why was it regionally based? Well, it was
because these states in red and yellow are states where the highest
rates of disease had occurred for many, many years. They are primarily in the west and that is
where it is recommended that all children be vaccinated - and in fact
there have been fairly high rates of immunization that have gone on
there.